Danaher Corporation
American healthcare company
Summary
Danaher Corporation is an American healthcare company headquartered in Washington, D.C.. It develops products used for advances in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. The company operates three divisions: biotechnology, which develops products for the development of therapeutics; life sciences, which develops products to identify causes of disease, new therapies, and to test and manufacture new drugs, vaccines and gene editing technologies; and diagnostics, which develops instruments, consumables, and software and services to diagnose diseases. Danaher was founded in 1984 by brothers Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales; it was named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana, where the brothers came up with the idea for the company while fishing.
Originally created by Tony619
7/30/2005, 5:43:41 AM
Modified
5/25/2026, 12:52:49 PM
Recent revisions
/* External links */ Added link to company's subsidiary
Added Photo of HQ
/* External links */ {{S&P 500 companies}}
Masimo acquisition
MOS
/* Controversies */ clean up, replaced: [[Youtube → [[YouTube
clean up
/* top */
Spelling fix, heath → health
order, fix references
order, update
rm puff
/* 1990–2000 */ replaced: wholly-owned → wholly owned
/* 2011–2020 */ cn
Fix cite errors. Mv official website to [[Wikidata]].
Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work e.g. a website.
/* 1990–2000 */ De-promotional-ize the language here.
/* 1990–2000 */ Fix butchered link. Citations needed. Remove promotional language.
Rm some spammy [[WP:EL|external links]].
